Tyra Gittens

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Tyra Gittens
Personal information
Birth nameTyra Gittens
NationalityTrinidad and Tobago
Born (1998-06-06) 6 June 1998 (age 23)
Sport
SportTrack and Field
Event(s)Long jump, High jump, Heptathlon

Tyra Gittens (born 6 June 1998) is an Olympic athlete from Trinidad and Tobago.[1]

Her hometown is Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, and she went to high school in Nashville at The Ensworth School before attending Texas A&M University.[2]

In July 2017, Gittens broke her own national junior heptathlon record in winning the Pan American Combined Events Cup in Ottawa, Canada, gaining 5,490 points in the seven-discipline event to improve on the 5,337-point standard she had established in 2016.[3]

She won silver in the women’s long jump at the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.[4] She did however win gold in the heptathlon, despite the fact she injured her ankle in the days before the event.[5]

In Texas on 14 May 2021, she jumped 6.96m to place her inside the top 10 for the year so far.[6] Her performance at the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships (SEC) in Texas, as well as attaining the Olympic standard for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the long jump, she won silver in the women’s high jump competition with a height of 1.89m, she missed out on qualifying for the heptathlon at the 2020 Olympics on that day by just two points, accumulating 6,418 points in winning the seven-discipline event.[7]

In June 2021, she was named to the US Track and Field Cross Country Association (USTFCCCA) National awards list, winning the Women's National Field Athlete of the Year award, as they stated that with her win at the SEC event she had become the third best performer in collegiate history in the heptathlon.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Tyra GITTENS | Profile". worldathletics.org.
  2. ^ "Tyra Gittens - Track and Field". Texas A&M Athletics - 12thMan.com.
  3. ^ "Golden Gittens breaks T&T record". Team TTO | Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee.
  4. ^ "Tyra Gittens bags NCAA long jump silver". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. June 11, 2021.
  5. ^ "Tyra Gittens takes heptathlon gold at NCAA Track and Field Champs". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. June 13, 2021.
  6. ^ "Long Jump - women - senior - outdoor - 2021". worldathletics.org.
  7. ^ Reporter, WIC News (May 19, 2021). "Trinidad and Tobago's Tyra Gittens prepares for Tokyo Olympics".
  8. ^ "Trinidad and Tobago's Tyra Gittens cops Women's National Field Athlete of the Year award". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. June 16, 2021.
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